{"product_id":"daughter-a-novel","title":"Daughter : A Novel","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Claudia Dey's \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaughter\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life-and art-of her own.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo be loved by your father is to be loved by God.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo says Mona Dean-playwright, actress, and daughter of a man famous for one great novel, a man whose needs and insecurities exert an inescapable pull and exact an immeasurable toll on the women of his family: Mona, her sister, her half sister, their mothers. His infidelity destroyed Mona's childhood, setting her in opposition to a stepmother who, though equally damaged, disdains her for being broken. Then, just as Mona is settling into her life as an adult and a fledgling artist, her father begins a new affair and takes her into his confidence.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Mona delights-painfully, parasitically-in this attention. When he inevitably confesses to his wife, Mona is cast as the agent of disruption, punished for her father's crimes and ejected from the family.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMona's tenuous stability is thrown into chaos. Only when she suffers an incalculable loss-one far deeper and more defining than family entanglements-can she begin supplanting absent love with real love.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Pushed to the precipice, she must decide how she wants to live, what she most needs to say, and the risks she will take to say it.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaudia Dey chronicles our most intimate lives with penetrating insight and devilish humor. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaughter \u003c\/i\u003eis an obsessive, blazing examination of the forces that drive us to become, to create, and to break free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Hardcover \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished: USA, 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher: Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePages: 251\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 13: 9780374609702\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 10: 0374609705\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Claudia Dey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44857535627530,"sku":"","price":31.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9780374609702.jpg?v=1699369969","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/daughter-a-novel","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}